Nicholas Yap
Nicholas Yap is the director of strategy and operations at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs.
Based in London, he runs DFRLab’s global operations and development activities. As a founding member, Yap has managed the rapid growth of the DFRLab from a team of two in 2016 to its current presence of fifty staff across seventeen countries. In this role, he has focused on building programming and partnerships to advance digital resilience and global counter-disinformation efforts.
He is a graduate of Colgate University with a BA in international relations and a minor in German.
May 2019
EU elections produce fragmentation, but also opportunity for Europe
While European leaders can breathe a sigh of relief that the populist surge proved less powerful than expected, significant challenges remain to bring together a fractured European political landscape and agree to leadership that can help Europe meet the many threats ahead.
April 2017
Khan Sheikhoun: The Fingerprints of a Chemical Attack
Eye Witness and Digital Evidence from a Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria’s Idlib Province
December 2016
Putin’s Undeclared War
Russian Artillery Strikes against Ukraine — A Bellingcat Report
